Musings of the Infrequents

Posted by franklin on 3:41 pm in Blog | Comments Off on Tales of the Dendrelyssi

MELANCHOLY ON THE SEAS I usually find sailing enjoyable, the act of navigating the high seas, plundering the enemies of the Dendrelyssi, ruling the Crimson Lands. My kind use to rule these lands, we conquered them using our demons, we used fear to control, we were invincible. Once. Since the end of the war with the humans of the Crimson Lands, my people are now a shade of their former glory and we’re forced to resort to mingling with “them” to survive. I find the prospect intolerable most days, the goods days I find...

Posted by franklin on 2:40 pm in Blog | Comments Off on Everybody is Kung Fu Fighting

We recently had an opportunity to play-test a new game that’s currently under development called BareBones™ Wuxia! I’m pretty sure we’re playing under an NDA so I can only write about the broad strokes. It uses the BareBones™ Fantasy / Covert Ops d00 system published by DwD Studios, so if you’re familiar with that game system and you’re into kung fu, then BBW! might be right up your alley. For those unfamiliar with Wuxia (pronounced as woo-sha) it is loosely translated to “knight errant” as written in...

Posted by franklin on 2:50 pm in Blog | Comments Off on Hello World or Should I say the Universe!

Welcome to The Infrequents! A gaming blog website for the non-participating, not active, tabletop gamer… not really. This is a new side project that chronicles the gaming lives of the Infrequents. A moniker that just happens to come into existence at a time when our gaming group was not getting enough face-time to enjoy the tabletop games we love to play. We’re an eclectic group of mature gamers that play a wide variety of tabletop games as we try and get together every week; sometimes not so much hence why we’re called the...

Posted by franklin on 11:19 am in Blog | Comments Off on Travelling the Great Beyond

The Infrequents have been playing Mongoose’s Traveller for a few months now, this is how the story started… Coming out of our respective career choices, the motley crew of the newly named Aluminium Falcon, a Harrier-class Commerce Raider of the formerly known Star Dragon Empire of Sindal, thrown together by the King of Drinax and given a letter of marque to prey on the ‘illegal’ trade within the borders of The Reach (aka The Outrim Void or the Trojan Reach). An area of lawlessness where empires die as the story...